Amber Rudd has quit the cabinet and surrendered the Conservative whip saying she cannot “stand by” while “moderate Conservatives are expelled”.

And are increasing her workload as head of Works and Pensions Dept, as if I haven’t enough trying to track down feckless fathers of unwanted children and dealing with dysfunctional families..the new residents of Downing Street are just not helping my plight.

The Works and Pension Secretary said she no longer believed leaving the EU with a deal was the governments ‘main objective’

No 10 said it was disappointed by the resignation of a ‘talented’minister.

But was still confident Britain’s Got Talent in the shape of a tenacious terrier..no not Dom Cummings but Dylin the rescue dog.

Labour said Ms Rudds resignation showed the government was ‘falling apart’

Upon which John McDonnell thanked ‘Agent Johnson’ for keeping up the good work of slowly decimating the Tories from within and that he would be handsomely rewarded with a years supply of ‘The Morning Star and the Freedom of Moscow”

Roy has written one-liners for Newsbiscuit and Newsrevue, and is a member of the Breaking The News writing pool. He also contributed to the Guardian’s book ‘1966 and Not all that’ (page 24, for the curious…).